overstretched
英 [ˌəʊvəˈstretʃt]
美 [ˌoʊvərˈstretʃt]
adj. (系统、机构等)超负荷运转的,硬撑着的
v. (使)勉强维持,硬撑着,超负荷运转
overstretch的过去分词和过去式
过去式:overstretched 过去分词:overstretched
BNC.36475 / COCA.40887
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED (系统、机构等)超负荷运转的,硬撑着的
If a system or organization isoverstretched, it is being forced to work more than it is supposed to.- The crime rate is rising rapidly at present and the police force is overstretched...
当前的犯罪率急剧上升,警力不堪重负。 - Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.
分析人士担心超负荷运转的空中交通管制系统会面临崩溃。
- The crime rate is rising rapidly at present and the police force is overstretched...
双语例句
- In the 1980s and 1990s, overstretched banks regularly found themselves without money to meet withdrawals.
在二十世纪八、九十年代,过度放贷的银行经常会发现自己没有资金应对储户的取现需求。 - In this vision of the future, American saving would rise as overstretched borrowers repaid their debts.
在这种对未来的设想中,随着透支过度的贷款者偿还其债务,美国的储蓄会增加。 - Overstretched banks and global insurers are not the only things that are too big too fail.
举债过多的银行和全球保险商并不是唯一大到不能倒的事物。 - The overstretched knee ligaments and tendons are also usually accompanied by changes in adjacent muscle groups, including the soleus muscle, which is deep in the calf.
过度伸展的膝关节韧带和肌腱通常也伴随着相邻肌群的变化,比如小腿深层的比目鱼肌。 - The increase in the local population has overstretched the capacity of health services and aid agencies, while supply chains have been affected.
当地人口急剧增长,早已超过卫生服务和援助机构所能承受的范围,而水和燃料这类重要资源也即将告罄。 - Many fear that China's overstretched property market will collapse, leaving insupportable debts in its wake.
很多人害怕中国过热的房产市场崩盘,留下一堆无法支撑的债务。 - It will be a major challenge to introduce mechanisms that do not over-burden already overstretched health systems.
引入一些机制而不让已经负担过度卫生系统超负荷,这是一个重大的挑战。 - Searching for a balance between work demands and personal obligations leaves them overworked, overstressed and overstretched, the study says.
这项研究称,在工作要求和个人义务之间寻找平衡让他们工作过重、压力过大、疲劳过度。 - Overstretched, many went off sick, which made work harder for those who remained.
在高负荷的工作下,许多人请病假,使那些剩下的护士工作将更为繁重。 - Interest is growing in schemes to control the use of overstretched roads through charging-as already happens with trucks on at least some roads in Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
人们日益倾向于通过收费方式,控制对超负荷公路的使用至少,奥地利、瑞士和德国的一些公路已经开始对卡车收费了。